Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 2 - 13th July - 13 Jul 2022

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λBy Otto Prutscher for the Wiener Werkstätte

£10,000 - £15,000 £16,000

λBy Otto Prutscher for the Wiener Werkstätte, an Austrian silver box and cover,

executed by Alfred Mayer,1908,

lobed rectangular form, spot-hammered decoration, the pull-off cover with an ivory finial, on four ivory bun feet, the underside with a collection label, height 14cm, width 10cm, approx. weight 9.5oz.

Ivory Act registration reference: BADP857C

Provenance:

A Private Collection.

Sotheby's London, Pioneering 20th Century Design: The Torsten Brohan Collection, 8 March 2005, lot 34.

The Estate of Gustav Klimt, Vienna.

Galerie be der Albertina, Vienna

Phillipe Denys, Brussels.

Exhibited:

This piece was exhibited Der Preis der Schonheit. Zum 100. Geburystag der Wiener Werkstätte, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna, 2003.

Literature: Silberwaren, Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, image catalogue of the Wiener Werkstätte, vol. 6, p.71, cat. no. S 1036;

Christian Brandstätter, Wonderful Wiener Werkstätte, Design in Vienna 1903-1932, Thames and Hudson, 2003, p. 271.

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